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The Paris Agreement pursues efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, even though the 2°C target is quite ambitious. Assessment of technological and social conditions to achieve the 1.5°C target is inevitable, even as we discuss its feasibility.

The Paris Agreement also mentions “to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, on the basis of equity, and in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty”. This side-event will discuss the feasibility of the net zero GHG emissions in the 1.5°C pathways on both a global and national level. The event will also kick-off a joint publication on the pathways for net zero GHG emissions consistent with the 1.5°C target.